He's Worth It

Well folks...

...Believe it or not, I'm a mom now. Our healthy and happy baby boy was born on Sunday, March 4 at 10:44pm. And life's been different ever since, a brilliant kind of different.

After hours in labor, I ended up getting my epidural at 7cm! 7! My goal was to get it at 4-5cm but I had to wait it out until an agonizing 7cm. But after that epidural, life was real good, oh yeah! No pain whatsoever, I seriously do not know why women would want to do this all naturally - just get the epidural and you can smile your way through the delivery.

At around 9cm, my awesome OBGYN had me start pushing to get baby's head descending down my pelvic canal so that we can actually get the pushing out part started. But after some serious pushing, and I mean serious pushing, his head was just too big and not coming down, so with the advice of our OB, and being realistic, we opted for the C-Section. Around 15 minutes after prep, our baby arrived!

He's now 12 days old and is already ruling the household. Sure the hubby and I are sleep deprived, unshowered, not eating, and unabashedly unkempt, but it's truly all worth it once we see our little baby boy.

So it took 9 months for me to bake this lil bun, and now we're blessed with a lifetime with him. After all the pains, the nausea, the pregnancy acne, the weight gain, the water retention, the swelling, the dreaded leg cramps, the contractions, the dilation checks - ouch!, the needles, the stitches, the recovery, the post partum pouch, the hormones raging all over the place, and after all the labor...AFTER EVERYTHING...

...I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. He's just that worth it!